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It's not the volcano that's making Ted's ears ring, it's the church.

Cervelo TestTeam's Emma Pooley won the Fléche Wallonne Féminine in Belgium Wednesday, finishing with an eight-second gap ahead of three-time winner Nicole Cooke (Great Britain) and Emma Johansson (Redsun Cycling Team).

Ricco wins stage at Trentino

Results from the 2010 Flèche Wallonne classic

2010 Women's Fleche Wallone results

BMC's Cadel Evans wins 2010 Flèche Wallonne

RadioShack's Lance Armstrong, Levi Leipheimer and Jason McCartney will race under as Team Mellow Johnny's at the SRAM Tour of the Gila in New Mexico.

Fulgsang: ‘I dream to win the Tour’

Start List: Flèche Wallonne, 2010

HTC-Columbia has several options for wins at Wednesday's women's Fleche Wallone, but Judith Arndt's record at the race makes her the first name that comes to mind.

Restructured course opens up the Flèche

Results - Giro del Trentino

Astana's Alexander Vinokourov won the first stage of the Giro del Trentino in northern Italy on Tuesday.

Atlantic conference comes to Virginia Tech, where Navy secures it's Div. 1 conference title

After a few frenetic weeks, with sometimes as many as four races in one day, European racing takes a relative breather.

Lennard Zinn tries out the new budget-friendly SRAM Apex group on the roads of Laguna Seca.

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Francois Parisien (Spidertech-Planet Energy) powered away from a four-man breakaway in the final 300 meters of stage 2 at the Vuelta Mexico Telmex Monday to take his first UCI win of 2010. Parisien dropped his break companions, who included new overall leader Francisco Mancebo (Rock Racing) and Valeriy Kobzarenko (Team Type 1), on the upper reaches of the steep finish ramp in the town of Xalapa.

• 1. Benjamin Day (AUS/Fly Australia) - 298 points
• 2. Ben Jacques-Maynes (Watsonville, Calif./Bissell Pro Cycling) - 185 points
• 3. Will Routley (CAN/Jelly Belly p/b Kenda)- 162 points
• 4. Kiel Reijnen (Boulder, Colo./Jelly Belly p/b Kenda) - 136 points
• 5. Luis Amaran (CUB/Jamis-Sutter Home p/b Colavita) 131 points

2010 Air Force Academy weekend results

Top professional teams will mix it up with regional squads in a historic high desert mining town as the 32nd edition of La Vuelta de Bisbee kicks off Friday in Arizona.

The United States Air Force Academy hosted this weekend’s Rocky Mountain Conference racing in Colorado Springs, originally intending to run a team time trial, criterium and road race on base.

The Austrian anti-doping watchdog NADA is poised to initiate procedures against a number of athletes and trainers for their alleged involvement with a controversial blood laboratory in Vienna.

Belgian Philippe Gilbert (Omega Pharma-Lotto) rises to third place in the UCI's world rankings after winning the Amstel Gold Race.

Alberto Contador (Astana) is aiming his pistol at the Ardennes classics.

Yoga helps in stretching, strengthening, and lengthening muscles. It is also a fabulous method of preparing for cycling

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About 15 miles past the halfway point of the 124-mile Tour of the Battenkill in Upstate New York, Caleb Fairly peered down at his mud-splattered Holowesko Partners kit and thought to himself how cool it looked.

After a successful Tour of Morocco, Team Type 1’s Aldo Ilo Ilesic has taken the victory and yellow jersey in Stage One of the prestigious Vuelta Mexico. The stage was a humid, flat and fast 80 kilometer circuit race in the sea-level port city of Veracruz. Despite headwinds, crosswinds and rugged roads, the powerhouse team of Valery Kobzarenko, Shawn Milne, Scott Stewart, Javier Leal Megias, Chris Jones, and Davide Frattini were able to lead Aldo out to victory.

Ryder Hesjedal takes confidence from his strong second-place finish at the Amstel Gold Race.

2010 Tro-Bro Léon results

Italy's Giovanni Visconti won the Presidential Tour of Turkey Sunday, triumphing in an eight-stage, 1,232-kilometer race from Istanbul to the Mediterranean resort of Alanya.

2010 Amstel Gold Race results

Philippe Gilbert (Omega Pharma-Lotto) shoots away from an elite group to win the Amstel Gold Race.

Astana's Alberto Contador kept his pre-Tour de France preparations on track by winning the Tour of Castilla y Leon for the third time in his career Sunday.

When the nine riders of Fly V Australia line up for the Tour of the Battenkill in Cambridge, New York, Sunday morning, they will have the confidence that comes with riding for one of the most veteran directors on the road.

Fly V Australia’s Ben Kersten and Roosters' Nichole Wangsgard prevail in the hard-fought Sunny King NRC race in Alabama.

Start List: Amstel Gold Race, 2010

Rookie Elia Viviani (Liquigas) snagged his second pro victory Saturday at the Tour of Turkey after a finish-line crash derailed the HTC-Columbia train.

The 22-team field at the Tour of the Battenkill will not be growing by one before the start on Sunday. Kelly Benefit Strategies will not make the race, citing difficulties in rearranging travel after their scheduled trip to Tro Bro Leon was canceled due to the Icelandic volcano that has disrupted travel across Europe.

Alberto Contador (Astana) did what he didn’t do in Friday’s summit finish, winning Saturday’s 15.1km individual time trial at the Vuelta a Castilla y León and taking the overall leader’s jersey.

Carlos Sastre (Cervélo) and Bradley Wiggins (Sky) are among several riders to have pulled out of Sunday’s edition of the Amstel Gold Race after encountering problems getting flights to the Netherlands.

Amstel Gold Race: Previous winners

Of all the major classics, the Amstel Gold Race is the most difficult to predict — and one of the hardest to win. Only three riders have won the Dutch classic more than once: Eddy Merckx (of course), who took it twice in the 1970s, and the Dutchmen Gerrie Knetemann (1974 and 1985) and Jan Raas, who had five wins in six starts between 1977 and 1982. But all those successes happened long before the Amstel became a truly international classic.

Milram sprinter Wim Stroetinga broke his right hand in a crash at the GP Denain Thursday, and is expected to be away from racing for several weeks.

Greipel won his fourth stage in six days at the Turkey tour, out-kicking Italians Davide Cimolai (Liquigas) and Manuel Belletti (CSF) to snatch the sprint victory after a wild finale in the 194km stage from Fethiye to Finike. American Tejay Van Garderen finished seven seconds back, but remains second overall, now 23 seconds in arrears

The Dauphiné Libéré goes back to its roots in 2010 and will feature a summit finish at Alpe d’Huez for its 62nd edition.

The flight cancellations that have resulted from the volcanic activity have grounded Kelly Benefit Strategies in its attempts to reach France for Sunday’s Tro-Bro Léon (UCI 1.1). The team planned to start the race as the kick off to its first European stint in 2010.

It’s been a long time coming, but Basque climber Igor Antón finally scored another mountaintop victory on Spanish roads in Friday’s summit finish at the Vuelta a Castilla y León ahead of pre-race favorite Alberto Contador (Astana).

Andy Schleck (Saxo Bank) has been one of the enigmas of the 2010 season.

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Cervelo TestTeam's Heinrich Haussler will make his comback to racing following a leg injury at the Amgen Tour of California next month, the team announced Thursday.

2010 Tour of the Battenkill start list

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André Greipel sprinted to victory in Thursday’s fifth and longest stage at the Tour of Turkey while HTC-Columbia teammate Tejay Van Garderen remains second overall.

Theo Bos (Cervélo) sprinted to his second consecutive victory in Thursday’s longest stage at the Vuelta a Castilla y León in northern Spain.

Fabian Cancellara, winner of the Tour of Flanders and Paris-Roubaix, has pulled out of Sunday's Amstel Gold Race, saying he won't compete again until next month's Amgen Tour of California.

U.S. scene this week: Big time in Alabama, California & New York

Horner, Valverde lead teams for Amstel

Roman Kreuziger and Vicenzo Nibali will lead Liquigas into the Ardennes classics, with Franco Pellizotti joining for Liège-Bastogne-Liège.

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Johan Bruyneel says RadioShack will attend New Mexico's stage race, joining a strong field that already includes three Garmin-Transistions riders racing for the DZ Nuts team.

Results - Brabantse Pijl, 2010

RadioShack’s Sébastien Rosseler won Wednesday’s Brabantse Pijl out of a three-man breakaway in Belgium.

Tejay Van Garderen just missed victory in Wednesday’s 207km fourth stage at the Presidential Tour of Turkey and slotted into second overall at 16 seconds back.

Theo Bos (Cervélo) kicked to victory in the opening stage of the 25th Vuelta a Castilla y León in a windy, cool stage across the meseta of northern Spain.

Tech editor Zack Vestal looks at the bikes of Paris-Roubaix before they were subjected to a beating on the cobbles.

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Alberto Contador is hoping to use this week’s Castilla y León tour – which clicks into gear Wednesday – as a springboard into the Ardennes classics.

Sébastien Minard (Cofidis) dashed to victory in Tuesday’s Paris-Camembert in France.

It’s another busy week in Europe, highlighted by the Vuelta a Castilla y León in northern Spain and the Amstel Gold Race in the Limburg region of Holland.

If moderate heat doesn't pose a problem for carbon fiber, how about cold and big temperature fluctuations?

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2010 Colorado College weekend results

The battle for Rocky Mountain Conference individual and team omnium points was in full swing this weekend at Colorado College’s Classic Criterium and Cheyenne Canyon Hill Climb.

In the last weekend before conference championships, the Atlantic Conference traveled to Clarksburg, West Virginia, for races hosted by West Virginia University.

The Eastern Collegiate Cycling Conference traveled to New Haven, Connecticut, this weekend for the Lux et Velocitas race weekend. Yale University hosted the three-event weekend with collegiate and USCF races for an ITT, circuit race, and criterium. Proceeds from the sale of socks and t-shirts were donated by Yale to the Connecticut Challenge, a cycling ride to support cancer survivors.

Whitman College hosted both races over the weekend as the Northwest Collegiate Cycling Conference finishes the fifth weekend of racing. The University of Washington was able to maintain a slight lead over Whitman College in the overall team omnium. Whitman College will be looking to regain the lead in Montana next weekend.

Alberto Contador will lead Astana at the Vuelta Castilla y Leon (April 14-18), along with his usual lieutenants, notably David de la Fuente and Benjamin Noval.